Dacap posted:

You can play the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy one online http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game_nolan.shtml

McGravin posted:

Like the gigantic plot hole? This one:

All these reporters are trying to figure out the significance of Kane's last word, "Rosebud", right? Except Kane was alone when he died. No one else was in the room to hear it. How did the reporters find out what his last words were? Were they hiding in the walls? Was Claude Rains their source?

say no to bats posted:

Its kinda funny that the dude has totally dropped the ball on all of his "makes me money" Achewood projects for so long now, much less the general neglect the strip has fallen into.

Makes you wonder if the dude's got a real job elsewhere now or a new project and hasn't the heart yet to cut the cord, although all those outstanding preorders on things probably creates problems.

Aeldaar posted:

but it is in character!

Guava posted:

I'm all for Achewood quitting when it's past its prime. The only thing is...when Achewood deigns to update, it's still great (usually- I wasn't digging Lash of Thanatos). There have been (kinda) recent strips that made me tear up and laugh at the same time. I'll take one of those every couple months over nothing at all.

Wolfsheim posted:

Man, I wish I had Chris Onstad's problems (running a successful business that consists of me getting awards for and writing comics). Hell, I would even do it without begging for money during the months-at-a-time I couldn't be bothered!

My heart truly goes out to him

MadScientistWorking posted:

Yes but they do provide one thing that most other webcomic artists would kill for. Free large scale advertising the likes of which is next to impossible to get. I'm going to echo the sentiment Wolfshein has. Most people would make a deal with a devil to get into the position he had.

Fren posted:

Achewood has always been about the interactions of our favorite characters and various psychopomps. Trouble Man and No-No, Edison, Cartilage Head. I don't think I'd consider it genuine if we didn't go on these surreal rides every once in a while.

Van Dis posted:

That label was self-applied in alt text, facetiously, to excuse something vulgar, and has since been adopted by fans.

Zorak posted:

There's no reason Onstad can't use things like Topatco though.

Wootcannon posted:

I wonder if he calls his wife the Vulva Of Despair.

Fister Roboto posted:

I just love Onstadt's way with words in this one. The best thing about achewood is you could read a line completely out of context and almost always correctly guess who said it (assuming you don't have that particular strip memorized).

Loving Life Partner posted:

I feel like Seth Rogen would work as Teodor

How the hell do you cast Nice Pete?

Who is the most eerie soft spoken American breadbasket gentleman we can go with?

High Lord Elbow posted:

To Onstadt's credit, all great comic strips tend to burn out after ten years or so. Bloom County, Far Side, Calvin and Hobbes... Their creators all realized that it was time to end it. (Ok, Berke Breathed tried to pull a couple of Onstadt's when he ran out of dough.)

It's the lovely comics that continue forever (Garfield, etc.).

Onstadt's biggest failure is that he neither ran this poo poo into the ground by churning out utter garbage like clockwork for years, nor ended it with a clean and definite break. And so people hold him up for contempt and mockery instead of celebrating a successful and brilliant run that left the party before it got drunk and puked down the front of the hostess's dress.

Jerusalem posted:

The idea of Teodor getting threatened by Lyle, doing push-ups in a vain effort to get fit to prevent this happening again, then just bursting into tears, all observed through the lens of Philippe's perspective.... well what a wonderfully unexpected return to Achewood that was

head58 posted:

Leroy Dennui posted:

I also felt it wasn't good and was trying too hard until I realized Charlie Brown is just whining in reaction to being in Nice Pete's van.

Just Offscreen posted: